Absolutism And Enlightenment Flashcards
This guy believed that there should be a separation between church and state.
Voltaire
This guy believed that everyone was evil and needed a monarch.
Thomas Hobbes
Believed the government should be split up into 3 sections.
Montesquieu
Believed that people were born with natural rights and should keep them.
John Locke
Believed that the people and government and the social contract.
Rousseau
The belief that kings received the power to rule from God
Divine right
Person that took lead during the revolution
Robespierre
A time where a bunch of people were being executed by the guillotine.
Reign of terror
Last king of France
Louis XVI
Last queen of France
Mari Antoinette
A time period when the king was taken off of the thrown and people question how France was being ran.
French Revolution
Contraption that chopped people’s heads off
Guittone
During the reign of terror, who was safe from the guillotine?
NO ONE!!
What was Napoleon able to accomplish during the peacetime?
All of it was true
Isaac Newton explained what?
Law of universal gravitation
What concept was the belief in divine right used to support?
Absolute right
Which of the groups suffered the greatest loss of power from the reign of Ivan the terrible?
The serfs
Why did Peter the great build the city of st.petersberg?
He wanted a city on a seaport that would make it easier to travel west.
Which group imposed the reign of terror?
The committee of public safety
What was napoleons last defeat as emperor of France?
Waterloo
Who was the first Russian ruler to claim the title of Czar?
Ivan the terrible
What was Peter the great’s main goal while ruling Russia
Westernizing russia
